'British Airports'/VFR Photo scenery

[Chris558]

Having not long had FS9, (the 748/Hunter/Dove making it fully justifiable! ), I wondered if my 'VFR Photographic'' and 'British Airports' scenery add-ons for FS2002 would work in FS9. To my amazement, they do! Yet, on 'Uk2000scenery.com' it mensions upgrading from FS2002 to FS9. 'VFR' seems to be as clear as before, once I'd cranked up the Terrain Texture Size, and the only thing I've noticed in 'Airports' so far, is that the people standing around small Airfields appear to be in tinted-glass squares.

Initially, when I was looking for an FS9 version of 'VFR', it doesn't make it clear on 'justflight' or 'visualflight' web-sites whether there is an FS9 version. :think: Not that it really matters now, but anyone know what the situation is?

[DaveB]

Hiya Chris,

I'm pretty certain there is no dedicated FS9 version of VFR. I think two of mine say 2002 and the last two have 'compatible with FS2004' stickers on the covers. One thing that will not work are the water textures so don't even bother trying to put them on. The only proper FS9 software that I know of in the series is VFR Terrain

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[DaveG]

I believe the only "upgrade" for the VFR scenery was to make the installer detect FS2004.

[DaveB]

Yep.. that sounds about right Dave

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Chris558]

Thanks (both) Daves!

I think it's about time they developed another version of VFR, which surely by now could have sharper clarity, and as such below 2000 feet.

[DaveB]

Yeh.. I agree with that Chris. To get a reasonably clear overall view, you have to be (according to the manual) above or at 1500ft agl though I find it works best at higher altitudes to get a better (larger) overall area coverage. Looking briefly at the last edition (part 4).. the manual was still printed with 2002 in mind and the only real reference was from an A5 insert (in the cd box) and the sticker on the front.
It's very much old hat now but still the only way to get around the UK in VFR

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[phixer]

Yeh.. I agree with that Chris. To get a reasonably clear overall view, you have to be (according to the manual) above or at 1500ft agl though I find it works best at higher altitudes to get a better (larger) overall area coverage. Looking briefly at the last edition (part 4).. the manual was still printed with 2002 in mind and the only real reference was from an A5 insert (in the cd box) and the sticker on the front.
It's very much old hat now but still the only way to get around the UK in VFR

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Waking up another old thread. Must be the curse of the zombies!

I have quite a collection of JustFlight VFR Vols 1, 2 and 3
and British Airports Vols 2, 3, 4 and 5 I was searching hard for Vol 1 but then up popped a combined 1 and 2 so I got that.

All are labelled 2004/2002 except Airports 3 South & South West England which has only 2002 on the flash, will this work on 2004 (I note the remark about people in glass boxes.

I was going to get the scenery packs for further north but I also noted that the more I loaded on then the slower things became, whilst flying and on restarts, and that as one approached the edge of one 'domain' then the next often failed to appear failing to an amorphous blur.

Are these still the best available?

Are there alternatives?

[DaveB]

Hello Mate..

I wondered why this thread had sprung to life again

I've never seen (to the best of my knowledge) what the British Airports packs actually are but have been under the presumption that they were 'different' collections of Gary Summons UK2000 parts 1 to 8. It doesn't really make sense why Gary would let JustFlight reorganise and sell them 'under license' so to speak so I'm probably barking up the wrong tree. I have UK2000 parts 1 to 8 plus all of the UK2000 Xtreme series and these are designed to work with VFR Terrain and VFRPhoto Scenery (the original) by Getmapping/Visual Flight.
There have been constant updates to Gary's UK2000 series throughout their lifetime so I guess the British Airports series are not one and the same as I have no bods in squares

Someone will know.. they always do on here

ATB

DaveB :tab: